From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4020C7F3.8030004@cyberone.com.au> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:22:43 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm improvements References: <4020BDCB.8030707@cyberone.com.au> <4020BE94.1040001@cyberone.com.au> <20040204021823.24eb1c79.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040204021823.24eb1c79.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: >Nick Piggin wrote: > >>It allows two scans at the two lowest priorities before breaking out or >> doing a blk_congestion_wait, for both try_to_free_pages and balance_pgdat. >> > >This seems to be fairly equivalent to simply subtracting one from >DEF_PRIORITY. > > Sort of - except in the case where nr_inactive >> priority is less than nr_pages*2. Oh and this also allows another shot at refilling the inactive list. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org